From Superpower to Tourist Destination

Spain: Stage 7 (Collapse) Title: “Spain: From World Superpower to Tourist Spot” Spain went from

ruling continents… to being a nice place for vacation photos. By 1700,

Spain’s empire was a hollow shell: – Economically dead – Politically weak – Strategically

irrelevant The superpower of the 1500s became just another regional country:

Pleasant. Cultured. But no longer running the world. That’s Stage 7:

Collapse. Not necessarily invasion. Not always fire and explosions.

Just a slow realization that the world has moved on without you. Spain never came

back as a global power. The descendants of the conquistadors became a tourist